inheritance

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The result is that part or all of the inheritance passes to someone else, often a child or grandchild.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

My sexuality doesn’t obligate me to embrace a particular ideology or to reject the moral inheritance of the society that made my life possible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

But court watchers may not expect to hear debate about an 1844 inheritance case from New York.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2026

First-time buyers are also drawing more heavily on the bank of mum and dad - with almost one in three deposits coming from family gifts, and almost a tenth coming from inheritance.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

It was a charged time; the entire nation was frothing with anguish about its history and inheritance.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee